The Affects of the Ancient Patriarchal Societies and its Influences on the Bible and the Creation of Feminist Theology

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The Affects of the Ancient Patriarchal Societies and its Influences on the Bible and the Creation of Feminist Theology.

Mary Daly states that "a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan." The question is why are things the way they are in Church and in theology? Theologians and Feminist theologians have both agreed that, besides the questionable author of Hebrews, every other book in the Bible has been written by a male. Not only was it written by a man but it was written by a male during a period of time when men were believed to be superior. Even if women were included in the texts, years of being reinterpreted through a patriarchal society have reduced the impact of women considerably. This is evident through the limited power that females hold in church positions.

Feminist Theology's main goals are to try and recover the parts in history that were lost, trying to include women in places of power in Churches and primarily to confirm women's relationship with God and humanity.

Feminist theology also goes beyond the above mentioned points and talks about the naming of God as "Father" and "He". According to Mary Daly "Women have had the power of naming stolen from us." Did men name God "Him" simply because they were not in a society where God could be comprehended as a female? Or do men truly believe that God has a gender? There have been many verses in the Bible that talk about the gender of God as both a female and as a male. [1] Proof of God as a female can be found in Proverbs 1:20-33. The verses clearly state God as a "She", such as verse 1:21...